Papers and Reports on Cotton Cultivation: Presented to the International Congress of Tropical Agriculture, Brussels, May, 1910. Supplementary to the General "Report on the Present Position of Cotton Cultivation".International Association of Tropical Agriculture and Colonial Development, 1911 - Cotton - 320 pages |
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Page 307 - After the winter crops have been gathered, cotton fields are easily made ready for the shoots, which, while growing, are carefully tended, thinned, hoed, and weeded until the flowers begin to appear about August. As the pods begin to ripen and burst, the cultivator collects them before they fall, to clean the cotton of seed and husks. The weather is carefully watched, for a dry summer or a wet autumn are alike unpropitious, and as the pods are ripening from August to October, it is not uncommon for...
Page 33 - Dr. LO Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture, for the National Conservation Commission. See also Charles Harrington, MD, "Practical Hygiene," Third Edition, Philadelphia, (Lea), 1905, pp.
Page 41 - Bulletin 57. The Relative Virulence for the Domestic Animals of Human and Bovine Tubercle ; Bibliographical Review ; Experimental Researches. — RR Dinwiddie. Bulletin 58. An Experiment in Grazing a Corn and Cowpea Field with Steers : Experiments with Peanuts, Legume Manuring. Cotton Meal. Whole and Crushed Cotton Seed Manuring, and Varieties of Cotton. — RL Bennett.
Page 110 - About sixty miles south of Suakin, the Baraka River forms a large delta, in the centre of which stands Tokar, the only permanent village in the district. This delta is the only tract in the Suakin Mudiria which offers any prospects of development in cotton growing. The area of the Baraka Delta is approximately 400,000^ acres, but probably not more than one-fourth of this i* available for cultivation.
Page 124 - The Governor may fix such penalties for the breach or non-observance of any rule as he may think proper, not exceeding imprisonment...
Page 26 - Proliferation as a Factor in the Natural Control of the Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil 85 No.
Page 41 - Bulletin 46. Experiments with Manures and Rotation for Improving Worn Cotton Soils; Experiments on Beef and Pork Production in Connection Therewith.
Page 124 - ... the breach or non-observance of any rule shall be punishable to the extent aforesaid. 12. All rules made...
Page 25 - ... impracticable. Under such circumstances the farmer should obtain seed of improved varieties from dealers or such individual farmers in the locality as have been able to carry on careful seed selection. A valuable publication on the selection of cotton varieties has been published by this department as Farmers' Bulletin No. 314, "A Method of Breeding Early Cotton to Escape Boll Weevil Damage,